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What if Hegel were a neuroscientist?

Andrea Gambarotto shares what Hegel and enactivism have in common: an agency-first approach to understanding minds and brains.

By Paul Middlebrooks
16 September 2026 | 118 min watch
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In this “Brain Inspired” episode, Paul Middlebrooks talks with Andrea Gambarotto, a postdoctoral philosopher and researcher at the University of Luxembourg. Gambarotto discusses how German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and enactivism flip neuroscience on its head, suggesting we use minds to explain the brain, not brains to explain the mind.

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